Monday, May 7, 2012

I will try arch linux or kubuntu as I dont like Ubuntu with boring menus after installing lxde (see below)

Update 3:

I installed lxde from synaptic (after nautilus did not work or search did not from ubuntu after zeitgeist removal) and this is how my screen looks after logging out from unity, selecting session as lxde, looks like lubuntu,

Update 2:

Well I forcefully deleted libzeitgeist from synaptic (anyway manual deletion of zeitgeist does same as stopping good old nautilus from launching, I wanted zeitgeist formally removed from synaptic) and accepted all the s/w which needs to be removed to be removed, sorry I dont want you logging s/w

Update 1:

After removing zeitgeist manually ( explained below) from ubuntu nautilus does not work, well it is expected, I will install thunar or maybe try Xubuntu, ha ha

If you dare proceed further

Before Update (manually removing logging s/w):

Well, speed of Ubuntu 12.04 is good.

But I did not like this privacy settings in Ubuntu 12.04 which logs every user action. Much is said in net about this privacy. There is option to disable logging but do I trust it? I am doubtful

The s/w which is used for logging is zeitgeist. It is neutral like most of the s/w neither good nor bad. But it could be used to track users and log activity to server. I did not like this

Here is a weblog of what I did to stop logging completely out of ubuntu and think it may help someone using ubuntu and wants to remove shady logging

To stop this logging completely, I removed zeitgeist from synaptic/apt-get

Then tried removing libzeitgeist and it warned me of direly to remove file manager ...

So I went this approach

First searched all running processes and stopped zeitgeist daemon

sudo ps ax | grep zeit

Then killed all processes with name zeitgeist with pid using sudo kill <pid>

Then deleted all zeitgeist files from my system as super user

To do that I did the following

updated all locate indexes

sudo updatedb

searched for zeit*

locate zeit

removed local and cache from current user

sudo rm -rf .local/share/zeitgeist/

sudo rm -rf .cache/zeitgeist/

updated db

sudo updatedb

then searched zeit and removed all files as super user, well now there is no stupid zeitgeist or its shared objects unless it is bundled statically with some s/w. Even then I could create a proxy server, firewall and filter all unwanted output. Till ubuntu tries to build statically this logging s/w I will enjoy, then I can go with firewall rules allowing only the web traffic which I make

Or I may switch to arch

Till then here are the command summary I followed to deweed logging s/w